Metal

Post-metal/rock outfit Pelican are an institution in the genre, having existed at this point for more than two active decades. The December issue of Decibel features a studio report with guitarists Trevor de Brauw and Laurent Schroeder-Lebec, who is playing on his first major Pelican release since 2012’s Ataraxia / Taraxis, so you’ll have to pick that issue

Do you love Obituary but wish they thrashed and grinded just a little harder? If your answer is “yes,” then I’ve got an album to pitch you: Mystic Seance Unrealities, the new album from Canadian death-thrashers Immortal Force. Their first LP after a demo and pair of splits with fellow Canadian bands Expunged and Nephilim’s Noose, Mystic

The pastoral opening passage of “Moment Présent,” from new French outfit Septaria’s debut album Astar, may not give the impression that this is in fact an extreme metal album, but rest assured it is. Mostly it’s filled with the kind of kind of post-metal explosives that see the band—Hugo Thevenot (guitar/vocals), Hugo Leydet (drums), Baptiste Trébuchon (bass),

Welcome to Rockville 2025, the Daytona Beach, FL four-day party festival (it’s not really a party but it will definitely be fun), just shared another set of bands to grace Stage 4 on Friday, May 16. Added to the festival’s already extensive list of performing delights are Killswitch Engage, Jinjer, As I Lay Dying, August

Serj Tankian, lead singer of the fuckin awesome band System of a Down (in case you didn’t know, for whatever reason), just released his New York Times bestselling memoir Down With The System over the summer, and he shared even more details about the book in a new interview with São Paulo, Brazil’s 89 FM

Empty Throne Prepare for darkness incarnate—Empty Throne is about to descend with a powerful new video for “Unholy,” the title track of their upcoming debut full-length album, set for release on November 27, 2024, via Downfall Records. This single serves as a brutal prelude, a glimpse into the kind of sonic devastation only a band

Work sucks, I know. And so do Strangelight. On the heels of their new album, Material Conditions, the Bay Area post-hardcore quartet have released a video that invites us to live vicariously through a corporate team member who can no longer take the feel-gooderies of their job and revolts. This idea, brought to life by

In less than a month Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver returns to the Summit for its third round on Friday and Saturday, December 6-7, 2024. All ticket options are ON SALE NOW (links below)! Death metal legends Autopsy will make their Denver debut with a special headline performance of their 1989 classic Severed Survival (and other horrifying

Leila Abdul-Rauf is one of the most formidable living death metal musicians and a brilliant experimental composer who, for years, has built a musical identity outside of the heavy with her solo work. Her fifth solo album, Calls From A Seething Edge, is her best solo work. It was written during a time of global

Photo courtesy of Tungsten Tungsten are back with their fourth record, The Grand Inferno, out tomorrow via Reigning Phoenix Music (RMP). The Swedish symphonic metallers keep things melodic and soaring on this record, and they also broke down what each track means to them. Check out their explanations and stream the full record below. Anger “Anger” is

Swedish death dealers Carnal Savagery are having a big year. After releasing fifth full-length Into the Abysmal Void earlier this year, they’re locked and loaded on their sixth album, Graveworms, Cadavers, Coffins and Bones, which is slated for release later this month. The quality of the music remains high, as you’ll hear below on the newly-released title track. “Graveworms, Cadavers,

Photo by Corey Soria • Edited by Stephanie Cabral Across extreme music and video games, no two words command such an immediate reaction or inherent respect like “old school.” After witnessing light-speed progress in the blink of an eye, large swaths of the video game community are increasingly interested in older approaches, whether they be

Pic by Camden Cruz Going back to 2007, Florida power metal quartet Seven Kingdoms have released five full-lengths through an assortment of labels. For their latest five-song EP, The Square, they’ve found a home with Reigning Phoenix Music, which has put out recent releases from Opeth, Kerry King, Deicide and many others. On The Square,

Dustin Boltjes is best known to Decibel readers as the drummer of the OSDM primitivists Flesher. In 2023, Decibel said their debut Tales Of Grotesque Demise would appeal to the “discerning group who like music that lands like a dominatrix’s kick to the nads.” In our cover story on Glen Benton earlier this year, Boltjes

Welsh rockers The Death of Money have been making noise for two decades and their new album, Error After Era, reflects the latest evolution of their sound. The songs on the trio’s new album are heavy but melodic, taking the ground-shaking riffs of Neurosis or Isis and merging it with hypnotizing shoegaze. The end result is songs like

Barcelona’s Emissary are almost ready to give the world their debut album, Eldritch, early next year. Led by The Evil Dead guitarist Michel Regueiro, Emissary play sharp-edged black-thrash tinged with old-school heavy metal. Though it’ll be a few months before Eldritch sees the light of day, they’ve revealed “At the Throne of Chaos,” the first song from the record. True

Photo by Michael Dimmit Brooklyn, NY power duo The Triceratops’ music definitely does not resemble the lumbering, three horned dinos their moniker invokes. In fact, the tune featured in this video premiere, “Can’t Take You,” is more grunge-era than Mesozoic-era. It’s an early ’90s uppercut of punk pummel and earnest angst from the outfit’s debut

It’s pretty much an unimpeachable statement to say that the first four Danzig records are completely flawless and by the time they made Danzig: 4 that they were possibly the greatest quartet in rock. And, like all good things, that was that. The “classic” lineup that held together the last part of (pre-Danzig band) Samhain’s

Back in the celebrated and white-washed era known as ‘back in the day,’ I played my fair share of house shows. In fact, even though I barely have my ear to the ground about anything anymore, when my old ears connect with bits of obscure information, I’m still apt to show up at the home

Adrien Begrand has been a staple at Decibel since he contributed his first piece to the magazine in January 2005, two decades ago. His work has appeared in virtually every other notable music publication and website throughout his writing career. Begrand is a sharp and insightful writer whose work is blissfully free of music writer